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The hoatzin bird of
modern-day Venezuela
possesses clawed wings,
just like Archaeopteryx.
Several other bird species
bear clawed wings, which
demolishes the thesis that
clawed wings are an inter-
mediate features.
The teeth in
Archaeopteryx’s jaw
One of the main “intermedi-
ate form” features that evolutionist
biologists point to is the teeth in Archaeopteryx’s jaw. But this does not
actually show any relationship between this bird and earlier reptiles.
Evolutionists are mistaken in suggesting that these teeth are a reptilian
feature, because teeth are not a reptilian characteristic. Some modern-
day reptiles have teeth, while others (such as turtles) do not. Even more
importantly, Archaeopteryx was not the only toothed bird. Such birds are
extinct today, but the fossil record contains a separate group of toothed
birds that lived both at the same time as Archaeopteryx and after-
wards—and indeed until recent times.
Dr. Carl Wieland comments:
